Today's business leaders understand the need for an integrated health and safety program. They know that prevention planning and risk management reduces cost and builds competitive advantage. In addition, the commitment to zero injuries demonstrates strong moral leadership–the kind of leadership that builds motivated and productive workforces.
To harness this power, IHSA has created ZeroQuest®. This navigation tool helps you find your health and safety bearing and plot progression points along the way.
Since every firm is unique, ZeroQuest® is designed to ensure that any company's health and safety system has the components necessary to succeed.
ZeroQuest® is comprised of four levels:
Each level builds upon the previous one. The goal of ZeroQuest® is to guide participants through the process of building a sustainable health and safety system.
By becoming involved in the process – through such initiatives as sharing best practices and joining working groups – individual firms working their waythrough the program will find themselves becoming contributing members of an interdependent community of companies with similar needs and qualities. You will all work together to achieve zero injuries.
The Commitment Level is the first step in the process. It requires firms to reflect upon and share how they are committed to a sustainable health and safety system.
Although the primary focus at this level is on how well a firm has planned its health and safety system, the commitment you make is to the entire program.
At the Effort Level, a firm works toward integrating its health and safety system with productivity and profitability. This is done by establishing measurable strategic objectives and setting goals to attain them.
The Outcomes Level requires firms to assess the efforts made to maintain and sustain their health and safety systems, while checking and identifying areas for improvement, and correcting them.
At the Sustainability Level, a firm must be constantly engaged in planning, implementing, checking, and correcting its health and safety system.
To help you get started an interactive guide has been created that will help you through the process of becoming a ZeroQuest® member. Simply scroll down to the Table of Contents and select the different levels for more information, download and print this version for your files.
At IHSA we believe in zero. However getting there means pulling together as an interdependent community. Your involvement in ZeroQuest® is the first step.
Please contact Dawn Vanags dvanags@ihsa.ca for your customized enrollment fee.
The new way to simplify health and safety record keeping
InfoQuest™ will save you time and increase your efficiency by centralizing and simplifying the way you gather and report your firm’s health and safety performance information. This ‘all-in-one’ software can reduce manual file-keeping, eliminate inefficient spreadsheets and help coordinate your entire safety and training management system.
Developed for health and safety managers and ZeroQuest® members, it allows you to track your firm's progress through IHSA's health and safety management system and compare your performance with others within your WSIB rate group.
To learn more, visit the InfoQuest™ web page.
